£500 Covid payments for low-wage workers to self-isolate could be scrapped

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The government's latest plans to scrap all Covid restrictions could see the end of the £500 self isolation payment for workers with the virus.

Boris Johnson recently announced plans to end all domestic legal restrictions in England a month earlier than planned on February 24.

That means that the Test and Trace Support Payment which was introduced in September 2020 to help low-wage workers afford to self-isolate for up to 14 days could come to its end. READ MORE: Drink-driving £48k-a-year beauty boss 'pressured' into attending work do The Mirror reports that for the first time in almost two years, England will have no legal requirement to self-isolate if you test positive for Covid-19.

The announcement has raised questions over the future of the £500 payment, available to low-income people who are given legal orders to isolate.